Hose-mender.



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HOSE MEMBER.

(Application filed Jan. 7. 1901. Renewed Nov. 2. 1901.}

QNo Model.)

UNITED STATES WILLIAM C. NDERSON,

HART MANUFACTURING RATION.

PATENT OFFICE F DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO BUCKLE-Y- OOMPANY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A;,CORPO- HOSE-MENDER.

srncxmcArIoN formingpart of Letters Yatent No. 690,819, dated January 7,1902. Application filed January 7,1901; Renewed November 2,1901. Serial No. 80,913. (No model.)

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States,-residing at De-- troit, in the county of Wayne and State of 5 Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hose-Menders, of which the following is a specification. My invention consists of a device for readily mending flexible hose, such as rubber 1o garden-hose, &c.; and it consists generally of a metal ring or annulet, made of suitable material, large enough to readily fit around the hose to be mended and'provided with suitable lugs or-loops formed therein, by

' :5 which it may be conveniently tightened upon the hose bymeans of an ordinary nail or other simple implement.

The annexeddrawings show a simple form of my invention as applied to the mending of an ordinary section of garden-hose.

Figure 1. represents the metal ring or annulet by itself. Fig. 2 shows the same as placed in position upon the hose and ready to be tightened into position, and Fig. 3 shows the same when finally tightened into place.

In the drawings, A represents-t-he-ring or annulet, composed of copper wire or other suitable material; a a,the lugs orloops formed in the same for the purpose of tightening the ring in place after adjustment; B, a section of hose, and C the ordinary section of metal tubing used in repairing such hose.

D represents the nail used in tightening up the ring in place after adjustment.

The method of using my device is as follows: The metal tubing being placed inside the hose, the rin-g or annulet is. slipped over the hose, near the end thereof and so as to be over the section of metal tubing andinside the projecting rim on the end thereof, as

shown in Fig. 2. A nail of suitable size to. be used as a lever or any other suitable implementof the kind is then inserted in one of the loops or lugs a a and turned so as. to 43 tighten the ring upon the hose and prevent the latter from slipping from the section of metal tubing 0, as shown in Fig. "This operation is repeated with the other lugs uning when the hose is' moved.

til the section of hose is sufficiently secured.

It will be observed that the loops or lugs a a project outwardly from the circumferential plane of the ring, so that when the ring is applied to a hose a nail or like instrument can be freely inserted in one (if only a single one be employed) or both of said loops or lugs,

so as to twist the same and oonstrict the ring on theh'ose. it will be seen that the ring is in two portions, lying, respectively, in different planes, and thatthe branches of the loopsa' (shown as U-shaped) extend outward from those portions. The loops or lugs may then, if desired, be flattened down onto the hose with a hammer or other implement, so as to be Out of the way and prevent their catch- 5 Whilel have shown the ring or mender as provided with two lugs or loops, it is obvious that no particular number of the same is essential to my invention, the form shown, however, being found from my experience to be a desirable and suitable one. It is also obvious that the size of the ring A should be so adapted to the size of the hose to be mended as to permit it to be readily adjusted to the same, while yet being small enough to avoid unnecessary labor in tightening the same in place. It is also obvious that the size and quality of the metal used in the ring and the size ot' the loops or lugs a o. should be adapt' ed to ready and convenient use. So I am aware, of course, that ithas been cus-' tomary to mend sections of hose by winding copper wire or other wire around the same and then twisting the ends together with pliers, sons to tighten the wire around the. S hose, and I do not claim, broadly, the use of 'wire'or other similar material in the mend mg of hoseby tightening the same around the hose; but I am. not aware that a device similar to that shown and explained by me o has ever been used, and I do claim, broadly, as a new device for mending hose a continuous ring, composed of copper wire or other suitable material, adapted to thesize of the hose to be mended and provided with suitable lugs or loops therein to admit of the ready tightening of the same in place by use I snidrii'iglmvinge Lil-shaped lug, the branches of a nail or other simple instrument. of which are connected to the respective pow Having thus described my improvement, tions of said ring. what I claim as my invention, and desire to WILLIAM C. ANDERSON. 3 secure by Letters Patent, is- Witnesses:

A device for mending hose consisting of. a DAVID 'l. MARANTE'HR, ring in two portions lying in different planes, l AMELIA WILLIAMS. 

